Yushchenko sees no reasons for state of emergency re flu epidemic.

KIEV, November 9 (Itar-Tass) -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko
does not see any reasons to introduce the state of emergency in the
country over a flu epidemic. He has made a statement in an interview with
the 5th television channel on Sunday evening.

"I come out against the country to stay motionless or restrict its
activities," Yushchenko said. According to him, the government should
"show the actions adequate to the current situation."
In this respect, he recalled that the World Health Organization warned
about the start of the flu pandemic back in May, and each country was to
take appropriate measures to prevent it.
"To be ready for it is the duty of each government, each doctor,"
Yushchenko said. "Ukraine turned out to be unprepared - there were not
corresponding diagnostics laboratories, test systems, no vaccination was
conducted," he noted.
At the end of the previous week deputy chief of the Ukrainian
presidential secretariat Igor Popov stated that the flu epidemic may even
be the reason for postponing the presidential elections due on January 17,
2010.
"If the government fails to put under control the flu epidemic
situation, the introduction of the state of emergency in the country and
the postponement of the presidential elections to May 30 is not ruled
out," he said.

.Russia to be represented broadly at World Travel Market in London.

LONDON, November 9 (Itar-Tass) -- The joint delegation from Moscow,
St. Petersburg and several Russian regions will represent the Russian
tourist industry at the international tourist forum World Travel Market
2009 that will open in the British capital on Monday.
The 30th annual tourist forum will be held at one of the biggest
present-day exhibition centers of the British capital ExCel from November
9 to 12.
Moscow and regional tourist businesses will be represented at the
joint stand of the Moscow Committee for Tourism with an area of 258 square
meters. Tens of tourist companies, hotels and museums, including
Intourist, Mosturflot, Krugozor, Russian Tourist Resources, Metropol,
National, Zolotoy Kolos, the Moscow state open-air museum Kolomenskoe and
others, participate in the forum.
The tourism potential of Russian regions at the stand are presented by
the All-Russia tourist coordination council Regions of Russia - Moscow
Agreement, the Kaliningrad and Vladimir Regions, the Republic of Tatarstan
and St. Petersburg.
Taking into account long-term mutually advantageous cooperation with
the Moscow Committee for Tourism and participation of the Russian capital
as an official partner in the preparation and holding of the
exhibition-fair here in 2005, the London organizing committee of the
current forum provided the best place in the central part of the pavilion
for the joint stand.
During one of the world biggest tourist forums the presentation of the
10th Moscow international tourist fair Tourism and Recreation and the
Tourist Information Center of Moscow will be held at the Moscow stand.
The permanent participation of the Russian capital and regions in the
London forum is caused by "a growing interest of British tourists and tour
operators in the history and culture of Moscow and Russia," chairman of
the Moscow Committee for Tourism Grigory Antyufeyev said on the eve of the
travel trade show. The inflow of British tourists grows every year and the
number of British tourists occupies a stable place among the top five
foreign countries for the last seven years.
The construction of new hotels is one of the factors for a growing
number of tourists, experts believe. The commissioning of new hotels makes
them more competitive and makes Moscow hoteliers cut the price for hotel
rooms. In the first half of the year six hotels for 1,450 visitors were
commissioned in Moscow. Nine hotels for 2,000 visitors are to be
commissioned in the Central Administrative District of the Russian capital
by the yearend. Twenty hotels will be opened in Moscow in 2009. Currently
253 hotels for more than 80,000 guests operate in Moscow.
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